This is bird note.

Composers from Vivaldi to Beethoven have been inspired by Bird Song, which brings up an intriguing question

in terms of structure, just how similar is Bird Song to the music we create.

Two recent studies offer contrasting answers.

One analysis used nearly 250 song examples of the Nightingale Wren,

a tropical American bird widely admired for its haunting song. The research found no consistent similarity between the structure of the Nightingale

Wrens song and that of Western musical scales. But a parallel piece of research reached a very different conclusion.

Analysis of slowed down Hermit Thrush songs revealed that they had a harmonic structure

that was similar to human music at least 70% of the time.

These dissimilar results leave open the question of whether of the musical structures. Though the beauty of a bird song is something that may always elude scientific explanation.

For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann. You're going to be.